Biographical Fiction

The Sand-Reckoner (Tom Doherty Associates Books)

By Gillian Bradshaw - Published 2000

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Biographical Fiction

Gillian Bradshaw takes the title of her novel about Archimedes from one of the ancient thinker’s own works. It’s difficult to ...Read Review

Sign-Talker: The Adventure of George Drouillard on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

By James Alexander Thom - Published 2000

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Biographical FictionWestern

While the story of the exploration and settling of the American West by white Americans in the face of stubborn resistance by red ...Read Review

Ashes of Britannia (Warrior Queen)

By Haley Elizabeth Garwood - Published 2000

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Biographical Fiction

“From the ashes of Britannia arose a legend,” and her name was Boadicea, Druid priestess and Queen of the Celtic Iceni. This third ...Read Review

Heartsong of Charging Elk

By James Welch - Published 2000

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Biographical FictionWestern

The considerable power and impact generated in this novel come partly from the actuality behind Welch’s fiction. In 1889 a young Oglala Sioux (...Read Review

Queenmaker: A Novel of King David’s Queen

By India Edghill - Published 1999

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Biographical FictionSaga

This Biblical historical focuses on a little known Queen; Michal, daughter of King Saul, wife to King David. At first we can empathize ...Read Review

Swords Across the Thames (Warrior Queen)

By Haley Elizabeth Garwood - Published 1999

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Biographical Fiction

Alfred the Great of Wessex marries his daughter Lae to Aethelred, ruler of the neighboring Mercians. Trained as a warrior, Lae joins her ...Read Review

Unveiled: No 1: No. 1 (Lineage of Grace, 1 Series)

By Francine Rivers - Published 2000

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Biographical FictionSaga

The first in her series of five ancestresses of Jesus, Unveiled is an easy-to-read tale of Tamar. Tamar, a Canaanite, marries cruel Er, ...Read Review

The Words of Bernfrieda: A Chronicle of Hauteville

By Gabriella Brooke - Published 1999

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Biographical Fiction

“The past is interesting only when it foreshadows greatness,” explains the monk Gaufredus Malaterra to this novel’s narrator, Bernfrieda, who questions why ...Read Review

Awen: A Novel of Early Medieval Wales

By Susan Mayse - Published 1997

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Biographical FictionEpic

May 4th, 793 AD.  Cynfarch mab Cadeyrn Penllyn, called Brys, appears for trial in the court of his foster father, Brochfael King of Powys. ...Read Review

Dorcas Good: The Diary of a Salem Witch

By Rose Earhart - Published 2000

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Biographical Fiction

Choosing to tell the tale of the 1692 Salem witches as a diary written by one of them seemed like a brilliant idea to ...Read Review